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United States workers requires more training-GE CEO

United States workers requires more training-GE CEO

Training Americans for realistic jobs that the country actually requires must be a government priority, based on the General Electric Chief Executive Officer Jeff Immelt, who leads President Obama's jobs advisory panel.

"There’re more than 2 million open jobs in the United States, in part because companies cannot get employees with the superior manufacturing skills they require," wrote the GE CEO, in an op-ed section co-authored with American Express CEO Ken Chenault that was presented in Wall Street Journal on Monday.

"The private segment should rapidly form partnerships with vocational schools, community colleges and others to match career guidance with real-world recruiting needs," they asserted. Immelt, chairman of the President's Jobs and Competitiveness Council, also asserted the United States government must "cut red tape so job-generating infrastructure and construction projects can move ahead."

Immelt and Chenault asserted the government has to do more to assist small business loans and generate jobs for 2 million unemployed construction workers. Obama congregates with Immelt and new associates of the jobs council later Monday in Durham, N.C., to talk thoughts to help encourage job generation. The meeting comes ten days after an unsatisfactory May jobs report.

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